HB 1371 Summary

• Comprehensively restructures Missouri's criminal code by repealing and reenacting 32 sections across multiple chapters, effective January 1, 2017

• Updates criminal offense definitions and categories, including restructuring assault, sodomy, child molestation, and robbery statutes to align with new classification system

• Revises sentencing provisions, minimum prison terms, probation eligibility requirements, and earned compliance credit programs for various felony classifications

• Modifies DWI/boating while intoxicated offenses by expanding definitions of habitual, chronic, and aggravated offenders with corresponding penalty increases

• Updates school discipline policies and reporting requirements for violent offenses, including expanded definitions of crimes requiring law enforcement notification and employee disqualification procedures